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Through the Bars

Through the Bars

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Whilst the Berlin Wall separated the city above ground between 1961 and 1989, the underground U-Bahn network still spanned East & West. Three lines that began and ended in the West but transited through the East contained 16 stations. These stations became what is known as "ghost stations". To stop people getting on in the East to go to the West, these stations were manned with soldiers carrying machine guns. As trains approached these desolate, musty stations, the trains slowed, but never stopped. Barbed wire fences were installed to prevent any would-be escapees from East Berlin from accessing the track bed, and the electrically live third rail served as an additional and potentially lethal deterrent. An alarm was triggered if anyone breached one of the barriers. The signage was removed at the entrances, walkways were walled up and stairways were sealed with concrete slabs.

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